Walking
Walking for transport
Walkit: the urban walking route planner
You can use the Walkit website to plan direct walking routes in and around the borough, and find nicer routes away from the traffic.
Transport for London
The TfL Walking in London webpages are devoted to walking, including useful advice on events and routes.
You can plan your journey, if you don't want to walk the entire route, scroll down the page and use the walking options to adjust your journey.
Report a problem on your walking route
Tell us about dog's mess, litter, an overflowing bin, graffiti, cracked paving stones, broken street lights or blocked drains.
- Report it
Walking beyond the borough
Walking Works
Walking Works is a national campaign to get more of us walking to work and to help employers and employees to get walking more.
Living Streets
A campaign to make our streets livelier with more people wanting to walk, Living Streets lobbies for better streets and neighbourhoods fitter for walking.
We are improving the quality of public space to make walking more pleasurable and hazard-free.
You will see improvements in lighting, paving and signage on key pedestrian routes.
Walking for health
Regular social walks
You can find details of regular free weekly walks in the borough on the Lewisham Healthy Walks website.
Health walks
These 30–90-minute walks are led by trained volunteers, and range from short park walks to longer explorations of the borough. Find out about healthy walks near you.
Become a walk leader
If you enjoy walking and want to get more involved in the healthy walks scheme, you could become a volunteer walk leader. Contact us to find about the free one-day training programme.
Walking for pleasure
Walks in the borough
Blackheath
You can walk to Blackheath from different parts of the borough, using these detailed routes that include local landmarks, areas of interest and places for a cup of tea on route:
- Brockley and Crofton Park to Blackheath
- Catford and Ladywell to Blackheath
- East Catford and Hither Green to Blackheath
- Grove Park and Lee to Blackheath
- New Cross and Deptford to Blackheath
Riverside walks
Discover hidden parts of the borough, find out about plants and wildlife and the borough's ecological history.
Get to know the rivers and green spaces in your area at these free events this spring and summer.
Walk It
Devise your own walking route and pick up suggestions for circular routes where you can choose how long you walk for - see WalkIt website for more.
Creekside low tide walks
Creekside Education Trust in Deptford offers guided walks up the creek - something for those who love mud!
Green Chain walks
One of London's six big walking routes. It's made up of various different routes, many manageable in a few hours. See Walk London for more information.
London Footprints walks
Routes and notes for self-guided walks throughout London, including specific routes in Deptford, Ladywell, St Johns and Ladywell. See London Footprints website for routes throughout London.
Walking beyond the borough
The Ramblers
The Ramblers is the largest membership organisation devoted to walking. You don’t have to be a member to find out about all the local activities and walking groups they run. Its Walk magazine contains the latest news around walking as recreation, with pages dedicated to London.
Walk London
Walk London has information on seven long-distance walks in London, two of which enter the borough. Each walk is broken down into sections and their are maps, route directions and an audio guide to help you.
The Saturday Walkers Club
The Saturday Walkers Club (SWC) is a London and Southeast England based walking group, which organises several walks each week in South East England, about an hour by train from central London.
Transport for London: Walking
There’s plenty of information to be found on Transport for London’s web pages devoted to walking.
Waterlink Way
The Waterlink Way is a walking and cycling route from Sydenham to the Thames.
It follows the rivers Pool and Ravensbourne Park Gardens through many parks and green spaces.
An attractive 8 mile (12km) route, it also links the borough’s three main town centres – Catford, Lewisham and Deptford.
Why not give it a try – on a bike or on foot, as whole, or in sections? You’ll be surprised at the tranquillity you find so near to the bustle of urban life: